Blue Star Equiculture

Once again, I must post and comment on how I haven't posted in a long while. Alas...

Fortunately, my reasons for not posting are most excellent.

They're named Bud, Mike, Jesse, Peggy, Huey, TLa, Dakota, Petey, Madison, Mooch and Cupcake. They live in Palmer, Massachusetts, and are residents under the care of Blue Star Equiculture.

What, you may ask, is Blue Star Equiculture?

Well, BSE is a non-profit draft horse sanctuary and organic farm founded in January by Pamela Rickenbach and Christina Hansen (that would be me).

You can check out our (still underconstruction) website here and our blog here.

We're drafting a better future for horses, humans and Mother Earth!

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(Next post, I'll return to carriage driving in Philadelphia, though Blue Star Equiculture is now the retirement home for two 76 Carriage Company carriage horses.)

Blue Star Equiculture

In January, signed up for nanowrimo's "Year of Doing Big, Fun, Scary Things Together" but I had no idea things were going to be this Big, Fun (and Scary)!

My friend, Pam Rickenbach, who runs Stardust Organics and used to drive a carriage with me in Philadelphia (where she was Tom's Mom), recently met a wonderful benefactor named Sandy. Sandy is interested in organic gardening, which is how she met Pam's partner, Glenn. Glenn told her about Pam's work with draft horses (Pam also has the great and awesome Bud in his retirement).

Before we knew it, we had a plan for a draft horse rescue / sanctuary and organic farm on 150 acres in Palmer, Massachusetts.

I'm very thankful to Pam for including me in this.

Here's our mission statement:

Our Mission is to provide homeless working horses a sanctuary and the opportunity to be useful and positively improve their lives, while bringing education, equine awareness, skills and healing to the community.

Blue Star Equiculture is a vision born out of the hearts of like-minded individuals who feel the need to respond to the current, increasingly dire situation facing homeless horses, especially working draft horses.

To be honest, the Jethro Tull song, "Heavy Horses," posted below, is really the mission statement.

HUMAN HISTORY IS WRITTEN IN HOOFPRINTS.

Check back for more.

Our website (still under construction) is www.equiculture.org